Response-ability: Practicing integrity through intimacy in the marketplace

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The paper addresses the problem of pursuing ethical business practices purely under the aegis of ‘integrity’, as frequently used to characterise morally desirable traits. Drawing on the work of philosopher Thomas Kasulis, the paper pairs ‘integrity’ with ‘intimacy’ as a critical concept, placing greater attention upon relational properties, helping to understand ethics as existing between individuals, things and the environment. The argument is that by paying careful attention to spatial and temporal dynamics and proximities of exchange, businesses can better maintain and extend practices of integrity. It reminds us that ethics are developmental (not transcendental); that the cultivation of ethics provides greater depth and ownership and pertains to matters of the body and habits. The paper contributes a way of reading exchanges in the marketplace beyond prescriptive accounts of integrity. Through the lens of both integrity and intimacy, it identifies how we actually ‘live’ or practice greater responsiveness to exchanges.Version
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Fukukawa K (2019) Response-ability: Practicing integrity through intimacy in the marketplace. Journal of Business Ethics. 160(1): 251-262.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3886-2Type
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3886-2